Smooth Muscle Cell Alignment and Phenotype Control by Melt Spun Polycaprolactone Fibers for Seeding of Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels

Figure 5

SMC seeding of a PLC prosthesis. A PLC tube was coated with PCL melt spun fiber (a), SMCs were seeded at high concentration (5 × 10⁶ cells/mL) on fiberless (b) and fiber coated (c) tubes, and images were recorded 5 days after seeding.

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